Survivors of a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida have joined protesters demanding tougher gun laws.Also in the programme: Poland's controversial WW2 death camps law and the secrets of a famous Picasso painting.(Picture: People protesting after a school shooting in Florida. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)…

As Russian foreign minister calls allegations 'blather', we ask what they might mean for Russia. Also in the programme: child murderer sentenced to death in Pakistan; and Kosovo, ten years after independence.Image: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov delivers a speech at 2018 Munich Security Conference. Credit: Sebastian Widmann/Getty Images…

The US special counsel investigating alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election has charged three organisations and thirteen Russian nationals with wire fraud, election fraud and campaign finance violations.Also in the programme: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa lays out his vision for revitalising his country's economy; and ...…

The United Nations World Food Programme has had access to Deir Ezzor for the first time since Islamic State militants surrounded the eastern Syrian city in 2014. The siege was lifted last year, but one of the aid workers on a rare visit tells Newshour that most of the city remains uninhabitable.Also in the programme: An interview with the White ...…

Cyril Ramaphosa has taken over as president of South Africa, after Jacob Zuma resigned. Mr Ramaphosa says fighting corruption will be one of his highest priorities - but can he deliver?Also in the programme: the authorities in Florida release more details about the deadly school shooting in Florida; and how a trans-gender woman has been able to ...…

The newly elected president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, has told parliamentarians that fighting corruption will be one of his main priorities. Mr Ramaphosa took over the presidency after his predecessor Jacob Zuma stepped down amid corruption allegations.Also in the programme: Police in Florida charge suspect in America's second deadliest ...…

President Zuma has resigned ahead of a vote of confidence that was due on Thursday. In a televised address, he said no lives should be lost in his name.Also in the programme; Morgan Tsvangirai, the former leader of Zimbabe's main opposition party, has died and; negotiations to restoring a power-sharing government in Northern Ireland collapse.Im ...…

President Zuma of South Africa has criticised efforts to remove him from office as very unfair; the governing ANC says he'll be voted out tomorrow if he doesn't quit today. Also on the programme: The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted his government is stable, despite a police recommendation that he be charged with corruptio ...…

We hear from Oxfam International's executive director, and ask whether such abuse is endemic in overseas aid work. Also in the programme: How should the reconstruction of war-torn Iraq be funded? And a plot to steal spinal fluid from young Pakistani women.Image: Locals stand atop the ruins of the Palace of Justice in Port-au-Prince following th ...…

South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has formally asked President Jacob Zuma to resign "for the sake of the country". The party's National Executive Committee decided the removal should be "treated with urgency" and that they expect President Zuma to respond to their decision on Wednesday, although they had given him no deadlin ...…

In South Africa dozens of senior officials of the governing ANC have been meeting for several hours to try to reach a consensus on President Jacob Zuma's future. Also in the programme: at least 20,000 Congolese have fled following violence, and is the Israeli Prime Minister considering a major change of policy on settlements?Picture: Jacob Zuma ...…

The Government has threatened to cut aid funding to charities that fall short on safeguarding and do not co-operate with authorities investigating alleged sexual abuse. Concerns over exploitation by aid workers were sparked after it emerged Oxfam workers who were accused of hiring prostitutes in earthquake-torn Haiti had been able to go on and ...…

The Saratov Airlines passenger plane crashed minutes after taking off from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport. All 65 passengers and 6 crew on board the plane were killed. Investigators say they are considering three possible causes for the crash: human error, weather conditions and technical failure.Also in the programme: Canadian-Iranian wildlife ex ...…

Also on the programme: The latest on the Russian passenger plane that crashed after taking off from Moscow's Domodedovo airport and one of Pakistan's best-known human rights lawyers and activists Asma Jahangir has died after suffering a cardiac arrest.(Photo: Decimated street in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake Credit:Getty Images)…

President Jacob Zuma continues to defy appeals to step down over corruption allegations, as the governing party holds emergency meeting on his future. Also in the programme: Alleged computer hacker with Asperger's syndrome wins appeal against extradition to US; and chlorine-filled bomb reportedly dropped in Syria's Idlib province.Picture: Membe ...…

A secret Republican memorandum has been published that accuses the FBI of abusing its own powers to spy on President Trump's election campaign. Mr Trump, who approved the declassification of the memo, said it told a disgraceful story. Also in the programme: more migrants perish in the Mediterranean Sea and thousands of previously unknown Maya r ...…

The International Olympic Committee has warned that the overturning of lifetime bans on a number of Russian athletes could endanger efforts to combat doping. We hear from the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Sir Craig Reedie.Also in the programme: A rare insight into life in Xinjang, China's Muslim-majority and heavily policed province. An ...…

Russian athletes could compete at the Winter Olympics in South Korea after lifetime bans handed to them by the IOC were overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Also in the programme: UN special rapporteur to Myanmar says reports of mass graves in Rakhine state "bear the hallmarks of genocide"; and efforts to reform mental health care ...…

A prominent Kosovo Serb politician, Oliver Ivanovic, has been shot dead outside his party offices in the Serb-run north of Mitrovica in Kosovo. Also in the programme: Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed a two-year plan for the return of Rohingya Muslim refugees; and an Australian father's instinct which helped to find his trapped son.Picture: Ol ...…

Opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has been barred from standing against Vladimir Putin. Also on the programme: the Pope's Christmas message focuses on finding peace in the Holy Land, and this year's Newshour Christmas Quiz pits the best minds in international news against each other. (Photo: Alexei Navalny Credit: AFP)…

Bankers, businessmen and world leaders meet to discuss the financing of the climate change deal commitments made two years ago. French President, Emmanuel Macron has hinted that the US could return to the Paris Agreement.Also on the programme: the US soldier who defected to North Korea dies; and the secret behind the extinction of the Tasmanian ...…

US President Trump's former national security advisor Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia.Also in the programme: Zimbabwe's new information minister and the latest on the football World Cup draw.(Photo: Former US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images)…

Another intercontinental ballistic missile test from North Korea: What options are there now to stop the country from becoming a full nuclear power?Also on the programme: President Trump has used his Twitter account to share several anti-Muslim videos posted by a far-right British group; and a new study says people who remain single into old ag ...…

Zimbabwe's new president has used his inaugural speech to lay out his plans to rebuild the economy. He promised to create jobs, cut down on corruption, and welcome foreign investment. We hear from the jubilant crowds inside Harare's main stadium and the opposition stronghold criticising the new president for a brutal crackdown in the 1990s. And ...…

As Saudi and Kuwaiti nationals are ordered to leave Lebanon, we examine the country's place among current conflicts in the Middle East; also, a former US ambassador to Beijing on President Trump's trip to China; and the island traded for Manhattan(Photo:aerial view of Beirut, Lebanon in 2013. Credit: Getty)…

Iraqi forces take over key buildings in Kirkuk three weeks after an independence referendum. Also on the programme: the fate of the American soldier who wandered away from his unit, was captured by the Taleban, and later swapped for foreign fighters by President Obama, pleads guilty to desertion; and the investigative journalist on the island o ...…

The US President says he is no longer prepared to sign a document saying Iran is complying with the nuclear deal it struck with the world's big powers. Donald Trump says Iran is not abiding with the spirit of the agreement.Also in the programme: Kenyan opposition candidate Raila Odinga explains why he is boycotting a re-run of the country's pre ...…

The rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have reached a deal over governing the Gaza strip after a decade-long rift. Also in the programme, the former EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton warns the US against imposing new conditions on the Iran nuclear deal. And new legislation in the Australian state of New South Wales aims to preser ...…

We have an exclusive interview with president Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan about future of Nato troops and peace talks with the Taliban. Also on the programme: the British author Kazuo Ishiguro has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and a report from northern Iraq where there has been further progress in the fight against the so called ...…

DACA, a scheme introduced by President Obama to assist undocumented people who came to the US as children to become fully fledged US citizens, is to be scrapped by the Trump administration. We hear from a recipient of the scheme. Also on the programme, following the victory of President Assad's forces in the siege of Deir al-Zour how long can t ...…

Kim Jong-un is "begging for war," the American ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has told the UN Security Council. The United States is pushing for further sanctions in response to North Korea's most powerful nuclear test. So what role should China play in the search for a diplomatic solution?Also in the programme: Colombia's secon ...…

Muslim leaders have lifted a boycott of Islam's third holiest site in East Jerusalem after the last remnants of Israel's recently installed security apparatus were taken away.Also in the programme: the leader of Japan's main opposition party announces her resignation after only a year in the job, and is it really necessary to complete a course ...…

In a deepening rift, Turkey has told Germany that their relations cannot be based on blackmail and threats. The Turkish foreign ministry accused the German foreign minister, Sigmar Gabriel, of having a one-sided and distorted approach to their relations. Mr Gabriel earlier announced measures against Turkey in an escalating row over recent arres ...…

A report into a world-famous Catholic choir school in Southern Germany has found that more than 500 pupils were subject to physical or sexual abuse over a period of nearly 50 years. We hear from Alexander Probst who was a pupil at the choir school and was one of the first people to speak publicly about the abuse there.Also on the programme: Is ...…

US President is in France for a 2-day visit but do he and Macron have anything in common?Also in the programme: the ethics of the case of baby Charlie Gard and the gamblers who practise "edge-sorting"(Picture: US President Donald Trump waves as he disembarks form Air Force One with First Lady Melania Trump. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)…

Huge crowds have joined a 450 kilometre anti-government march from Ankara to Istanbul. It has been organised by the opposition CHP party and was prompted by the imprisonment of one of their MPs.Also in the programme: A ceasefire in south-western Syria, and Russia's Bolshoi theatre cancels a ballet about Rudolf Nureyev.(Photo: Turkish protest ma ...…

US President Donald Trump has called a Supreme Court ruling allowing his travel ban to be partly reinstated a "victory for our national security". The Justices said they would consider in October whether the president's policy should be upheld or struck down.Also in the programme: leading members of the Jewish community are angry over the stall ...…

Thousands of residents of north London tower blocks are evacuated over a fire risk after the Grenfell blaze last week.Also on the programme: The British opposition Labour party leader speaks to large crowds at the Glastonbury music festival, but not everyone is happy; An audit uncovers $1 billion unaccounted for in Mozambique.(Photo: Residents ...…

As leading US Democrats issue a formal demand for an independent commission to investigate links between Russia and the Trump administration, President Trump has said he's been treated worse than any politician in history, especially by the media.Also on the programme: Chelsea Manning, who was behind one of the biggest intelligence leaks in US ...…

Donald Trump's National Security Adviser says the president in no way compromised any sources or methods in a meeting with Russia's foreign minister last week. H R McMaster defended Mr Trump's conversation with Sergei Lavrov as "wholly appropriate". So what is a US president allowed to share?Also on the programme: A Mexican activist searching f ...…

Speaking at the Elysee Palace, France's new President, Emmanuel Macron, said his country had to find answers to the great crises of the time, including migration, terrorism, the excesses of capitalism and climate change. Also in the programme: North Korean missile test, and Bob Marley's Exodus at 40.(Photo: President Macron waves as he parades ...…

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has been accused of plagiarising a speech made by defeated rival François Fillon, but was it plagiarism or homage? Also in the programme: could Britain make trouble for EU if Brexit negotiations don't go its way? And, scientists decode the genome of the tea plant. (Photograph shows French presidential ...…

Just what is Russia's view on the US presidential race and why does Putin favour Trump? Just how strong is so-called Islamic State? New research says there are four separate species of Giraffe.Picture: a woman wears a shirt reading "Trump Putin "16" while waiting for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to speak at a campaign event at ...…

A Russian military helicopter has been shot down over Syria, killing all five people on board; Turkey's security forces have captured a group of fugitive soldiers suspected of involvement in last month's failed coup attempt; the president of Taiwan has formally apologised to the indigenous population for centuries of abuse.(Photo: Men inspect t ...…

A lorry ploughs through crowds in the south of France killing more than 80 people.Pciture: A crime scene investigator works on the truck which crashed into the crowd during the Bastille Day celebrations in Nice, France, 15 July 2016. Picture: EPA/IAN LANGSDON

The European Council meets without Britain for the first time after Brexit vote; Scientists discover an escape tunnel used by Jewish prisoners during the Holocaust; The world's biggest uncut diamond goes on auction.(Photo: A United Kingdom name card at the EU Summit in Brussels. Credit: Reuers/Phil Noble)…

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